Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov David Dewhurst both released statements Monday, just hours after President Barack Obama announced that American special forces had successfully killed Osama Bin Laden, the terrorist financier and mastermind who was behind the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks that killed about 3,000 Americans.

Unlike statements issued by the Republican leadership and Democratic leadership in Washington as well as the statement issued by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst — Perry does not congratulate Pres. Obama for giving the order to launch the mission or former Presidents George W. Bush or Bill Clinton for their long pursuit of world’s most wanted man.

State Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, assigned as an aide to a two-star general in the Pentagon on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. As Birdwell walked down an …

We don’t have a formal statement from Gov. Rick Perry yet on bin Laden, but he tweeted “Justice!” a couple of hours ago. Senate Finance Chairman Steve Ogden, R-Bryan — a Navy veteran who has a son in …

The President of the United States addressed the nation at about 11:30edt/10:30cdt to inform the world that American military forces had raided a Pakistani compound that was home to terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden and killed the man responsible for financing some of the most vicious acts of terrorism in modern history, including the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. More than 2800 Americans were killed that day.

Here is the entire text of the speech President Barack Obama gave to the nation tonight, as it was prepared for delivery.